The woman who drew international attention in 2002 after she faked her daughter's terminal
cancer to swindle money from a sympathetic community is back in trouble nine months after her
release from prison.

Teresa Milbrandt, who went to elaborate lengths in 2002 to make it seem as if her
then-7-year-old daughter was dying of cancer, is accused of using forged prescriptions in July,
August and October to get pain pills at a Walmart Pharmacy in Springfield.

Milbrandt, 41, of St. Paris in Champaign County, has been charged in Clark County with three
felony counts of deception to obtain a dangerous drug.

One of her four daughters, 27-year-old Katie Harding of Springfield, has been charged with two
counts of deception to obtain a dangerous drug and three counts of illegally processing drug
documents.

Neither woman has been arrested; both are expected in Clark County Municipal Court on Nov. 29.
Neither of the women, nor their attorney, Kirk Ellis, could be reached for comment.

Court documents show that Harding was a medical assistant in a Springfield doctor's office when
she forged Vicodin prescriptions for herself, Milbrandt and two of her other sisters.

Milbrandt and Harding picked up the prescriptions.

Harding told police during an Oct. 26 interview that she forged about 40 prescriptions over the
past two years, according to court records.

Champaign County Prosecutor Nick Selvaggio, who handled the cancer-hoax case, said the Urbana
Police Department is investigating similar drug allegations against Milbrandt. Selvaggio has asked
the Clark County prosecutor's office to roll all the allegations into one case because they are
comparable.

Milbrandt, who already had a criminal record for stealing credit cards and passing bad checks,
served 61/2 years in prison on child-endangering and multiple theft charges after her cancer hoax
was exposed. She was released from the Ohio Reformatory for Women in Marysville on Feb. 17. She is
still under court-ordered supervision from that prison sentence.

Hannah Milbrandt was 7 in 2002 when her mother convinced her she was dying of leukemia.
Milbrandt shaved Hannah's head, gave her sleeping pills to make her appear sick, made her wear a
protective mask and a bandage to cover a nonexistent port for medicine and put her in counseling to
prepare for death.

The ruse unraveled when school officials became suspicious.

Champaign County residents opened their hearts and wallets; they donated more than $31,000 to
help the family.

In the only interview she ever gave after the conviction, Milbrandt told
The Dispatch that she thought her husband, Robert, was going to leave her so she made up
the lie about Hannah and it snowballed.

Robert Milbrandt always maintained that he believed Hannah was really sick, yet he pleaded
guilty to a charge of felony child-endangering. He spent nearly five years in prison.

A jury acquitted Milbrandt's mother on charges that she was involved.

After the cancer-hoax scheme was uncovered, Hannah entered foster care and was staying with
distant relatives out of state. Today, she is 15 years old. Selvaggio said that as far as he knows,
Hannah is doing great.